If God made this world, then I would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERIf God made this world, then I would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERThe world is my idea.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERNo rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERUniversal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERChange alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMusic is the melody whose text is the world.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERCompassion is the basis of morality.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERReligion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERThe person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERFaith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUEROrdinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERLife is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERLife is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts or leave it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERAfter your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERHe who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER